On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 06:08:31PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In a message dated 07/02/2001 12:16:47 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > > You are way off on your pricing. Way off. A 633 Celeron
> > > is under 50. Q1 for petes sake. The cost difference would be less than
> $20.
> >
> > > in quantity. It would be less than $80. Q1.
> >
> > That's just CPU. You've left off the motherboard, as well as the memory
> > and other supporting hardware required for the CPU to do the work.
> >
>
> Entire PIII MBs are available for under $60. Your concept that the delta in
> cost between a 486 chipset and PIII is more that that is utterly ridiculous
> PIII chipsets and 486 chipsets cost the same in quantity. Try using a
> resource other than your Radio Shack catalogue please.
Might be true, but embedded folks tend to use something else than a
run-of-the-mill mainboard.
I think this whole thread boils down to: "YMMV".
Let it die (please..)
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